Incidents  

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • August 3rd, 2012
User Sues Yahoo! After Leaked Data Is Utilized to Breach His eBay Account

User Sues Yahoo! After Leaked Data Is Utilized to Breach His eBay Account

Jeff Allan has filed a complaint, accusing the company of negligence

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 20th, 2012
Burger King Employee Stomps on Lettuce, Identified via GPS Data from Picture

Burger King Employee Stomps on Lettuce, Identified via GPS Data from Picture

It took 4chan users only 15 minutes to identify the culprit

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 18th, 2012
Skype Source Code Leaked, Experts Say It’s Old Reverse Engineering Project

Skype Source Code Leaked, Experts Say It’s Old Reverse Engineering Project

An Anonymous hacker published the files to protest against the government

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 17th, 2012
Anonymous: There Is No War Between WikiLeaks and Us

Anonymous: There Is No War Between WikiLeaks and Us

One member’s words don’t represent the voice of the entire community, the hacktivists say

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 16th, 2012
Symantec Endpoint Protection Update Causes BSOD

Symantec Endpoint Protection Update Causes BSOD

A compatibility issue between SONAR, Windows XP and third-party software was blamed

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 12th, 2012
Federal Jury Indicts 32 Individuals for Participation in International Loan Fraud Scheme

Federal Jury Indicts 32 Individuals for Participation in International Loan Fraud Scheme

The crooks stole around $2.7 million (2.1 million EUR) from 2,000 people

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 11th, 2012
Authorities Request Subscriber Info from US Mobile Operators 1.3 Million Times in 2011

Authorities Request Subscriber Info from US Mobile Operators 1.3 Million Times in 2011

Congressman Ed Markey has published the letters that contain the exact figures

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 11th, 2012
Corporate Espionage: Cybercriminals Plant USB Sticks in Firm’s Parking Lot

Corporate Espionage: Cybercriminals Plant USB Sticks in Firm’s Parking Lot

If the usual hacking methods don't work, things can become more physical

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 10th, 2012
Best Buy: Hackers Are Using Stolen Credentials to Access Customer Accounts

Best Buy: Hackers Are Using Stolen Credentials to Access Customer Accounts

The company has started advising customers to change their passwords

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 9th, 2012
DarkComet RAT Author Terminates Project Because of the Misuse of the Tool

DarkComet RAT Author Terminates Project Because of the Misuse of the Tool

The decision might be influenced by the arrest of "xVisceral"

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 9th, 2012
Two Fraudsters Sent to Prison After Stealing $2.3M (€1.9M) from Students

Two Fraudsters Sent to Prison After Stealing $2.3M (€1.9M) from Students

Scotland Yard found enough evidence to link the suspects to phishing campaigns

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 5th, 2012
Tornado Sirens Mysteriously Turned On in Illinois, Hackers Blamed

Tornado Sirens Mysteriously Turned On in Illinois, Hackers Blamed

The citizens of Evanston and Lemont warned of bad weather and even military attacks

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 5th, 2012
US Defense Contractor Subsidiary Admits Helping China Build Military Helicopter

US Defense Contractor Subsidiary Admits Helping China Build Military Helicopter

The guilty parties agreed to pay more than $75 million (60 million EUR)

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 4th, 2012
Full Tilt Poker CEO Arrested for Involvement in Ponzi Scheme

Full Tilt Poker CEO Arrested for Involvement in Ponzi Scheme

Authorities apprehended Raymond Bitar when he entered the United States

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • July 3rd, 2012
Pictures of Payment Cards Posted on NeedADebitCard Twitter Profile

Pictures of Payment Cards Posted on NeedADebitCard Twitter Profile

This proves that many users, mostly teens, are far from being security conscious

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • June 29th, 2012
Cunard Shuts Down Booking System After Exposing Details of 1,200 Customers

Cunard Shuts Down Booking System After Exposing Details of 1,200 Customers

An unknown number of users received an email containing booking references and other data

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • June 26th, 2012
Menshn Co-Founder Says Site Is Secure, Experts Try to Prove Him Wrong

Menshn Co-Founder Says Site Is Secure, Experts Try to Prove Him Wrong

A number of vulnerabilities have been found in the website

 
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